The Essex local paper Saffron Walden Reporter have printed a review of my local history book about the town of Saffron Walden and its surrounding villages of Audley End, Littlebury, Wendens Ambo and Little & Great Chesterford, Saffron Walden and Around Through Time.

Saffron Walden Report – 24 September 2015, page 24
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Saffron Walden Report – 24 September 2015, page 25
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I particularly like the reporter, Abigail Weaving’s, final line about my book “In fact, as [Kate J] Cole demonstrates, a mere window frame, memorial in a churchyard or an engraving on a wall, are not signs of an inaccessible past, but of one that is very much part of Saffron Walden today.”  This, to me, absolutely sums up and clarifies local history; the past is a living, breathing organic “thing” that is all around us and just waiting for new generations of townsfolk to discover their past.  And, as Abigail Weaving implies, local history is not an inaccessible past, but part of our everyday present.

Pargetting of an early nineteenth-century stage coach, on the side of a house in Gold Street, Saffron Walden.
History really is all around us.

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